tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49098076568788008522024-09-21T10:02:20.923+09:00To support http://howtoplayjazzpianoonline.com, you see my comments on my favorite piano jazz players on this globe.ironbluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16064895906905413962noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909807656878800852.post-27499222597413184122013-10-12T20:39:00.002+09:002013-10-12T20:39:36.406+09:00

It was January 6th this year. I was walking in my apartment. I stumbled suddenly and fell off to the floor. I go my thigh bone broken in half. I got hospitalized right way and I cannot walk as yet. I have had prostate cancer that was found in 1998. It extended to my bone now. It has passed 9 months. But I cannot walk as yet. During passed 10 months, it's been like getting punishment. Punishment

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Jimmy Smith plays Drums along with Ron Carter and Hank. Hank gave a tribute to the city of Kobe saying he's been in love. And it is true that there are lots of Japaneses who love him along with Tommy Flanagan and John Lewis. I am one of them. Know why? Because those people never push themselves with their power and technical play as Harbie Hancock does every once in a while. The MJQ had been

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I have not paid much attention to big band jazz during 60es. I had a chance to listen to his orchestra at State Room, Empire State Building, if I remember correctly. But I was much fond of Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans and Red Garland. It took me another 10 years to find how great the Count has been. I was invited to join amatuar big band during 80es and had chance to read scores of Count Basie

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Year was 2004, Oscar Peterson played but I see him old. My first live experience with him was in Chicago 1967 or 68. He was lively. I got tear too easy for him. Yes, we all die. And I am feeling it quite realistic by being 70 years. He mentioned that he has lost Jone Lewis, Ray Brown, Milt Jackson, right before he started playing this tribute. They are all my favorites.   I am

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My first encounter with jazz was MJQ headed by John Lewis, a noble man. I went to Tokyo for their New Year's concert in early 60es. There was no Internet at the time and no jazz station in Japan. I have visited so-called "Jazz-coffee" shops where they play LP records with the high fidelity audio system of the time. MJQ was quite popular. If you sit in the coffee shop, you are supposed not to

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Hallelujah! What kind of a group is it? I was fishing through Art Tatum for I haven't picked his play before. I started listening jazz early 60es. We had FEN, Far East Network then. That is the only one who broadcast jazz. But the main stream was Glen Miller, Charles Bennet? and those who were top runner at the time. Yes, the broadcast was for military people in far east. It was mid 1960 when

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I liked listening to Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson and Red Garland but had never tried to grab a few phrases to enrich my improvisation. They are to tough to copy and paste into my ad lib. On the other hand, I was able to write down series of single tone of John Lewis, Hank Jones and Tomy Flanagan. Their phrases sound like well planned and well thought out and sing pretty well. Oh, By the way I

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I was following Diana further and found that she sung with Natalie Cole. Hey this is something I cannot miss. That apply you as well. 'Cause they are fabulous. Just fantastic! You remember Route 66, the TV series? Oh, no. I should ask you "Do you know Route 66, a TV series?" instead. That was the America I was dreaming of. Martin Milner and George Maharis stared in. Above all the Corvette was

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I wondered out to see if there's something new. I found this lady pretty nice. Her name is Diana Krall. At first I was watching a video talking about Oscar Peterson and his life. There she was. She talked a little about him. I couldn't recognize her. But thanks to internet. A few clicks later, I found her playing Night Train aka Oscar Peterson. Here it is. She does two tricks of Oscar

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Who enjoyed this session most? Two of them, of course. Suppose, If you don't know them, that's a boring video that shows two old guys playing. But if you know who they are, you see them conversing all through the session. Oh, I wish I were there! During my active jazz age, we did not have internet. So there were very little information on players themselves. Yes, we were able to know how they

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It's been a while since I posted here. I've been busy to revise my way to affiliate. It's been time consuming and needed lots of focus than I have expected. During this period, I've been listening jazz through internet radio. I had been listening to jazzradio.com with winamp. Since I love piano jazz, I tuned to the "piano jazz". Yes, they play piano jazz all through the day. Well that's OK,

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Ever heard of her play? Well, this is my first encounter. Nice, but colorless, let's say. She sure has learned classic music. I see it clearly from her play. Her tone is quiet and lonely somehow. I was watching Woomy Schmidt interviewed her. The video is listed here with the title of "An Interview with Jazz Pianist Lynne Arriale (part 1 of 2) " . She said that she was adopted. She could have

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Hey, this guy's hilarious. I can build up lots of funny story concerning to his daily life. Here's one. As Jon arrived home, a few minutes before midnight, his wife was standing at the entrance and blocking his entering to his home. As he's lots taller than his wife, he asked her why he could not enter. She answered saying: "Oh, Jon, you have to smile at me with that silly empty smile first."

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I have never picked up Lennie Tristano. I had only a couple of LPs of his. I had a lot of Bill Evans, Red garland, Wynton Kelly, Oscar Peterson and such. But never was fond of listening to Lennie. For one thing, his piano play sounded me not American. I mean, his sound is rather modest. It was not like Peterson. Well for that matter, Wyton Kelly did sound modest as well but he swings a lot.Now I

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I was wondering how many female jazz pianist around. I searched You tube with this keyword. There seemed to be a lot, but was not that many. After about an hour research, I concluded that there was not many. And I finally picked three Japanese females. They satisfy the criteria of technicality as well as the perspective of jazz. I have heard Carmen McCrae when I visited Newport Jazz Fes, in 1968,

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Right, I've never wrote about him, McCoy Tyner. I had a chance to watch his live session sometime in 1970 or 71, and the show was in Village. I cannot recall the name of the place. I remember that my friend told me that we should leave there sooner for its location wasn't safe.Yes, he was playing trio. I was amazed how fast he could play. I had realized that those players known as recording

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This is my favorite Saori, the lady singer who recorded pure Japanese song with Pink Martini lately. It's been a while since I heard this song last time. I got tear comes out pretty hard. I can't guess teh reason. This arrangement itself is rather new. I remember that the original had been played slower. I'm not sure now, it's been long time ago, some 40 years back, you know. 40 years has been a

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Ever listened to jazz music played by foreigners, you Americans? Being a foreigner I have been wondering for long time what it could be like. We, had encountered a debut of foreigner as the "Enka" signer in 2008. It finally made me understand what it was like. The beautiful music is the music and nothing but the music, that what I've found.There is this Japanese specific category of music called

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While listening to this tune, I realized the reason why I didn't like MJQ at the end. The tempo of this tune is rare in their collection. And they do 8 verse here. That is rare as well. Is it? I am not sure now. It's been a while since I listen to them. The last was a session of Milt Jackson in San Fransisco, somewhere around mid 80es. It could have been in Sausalito. Yes, he is much vivid with

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As I repeatedly confess, I cannot get away from 1960es jazz scene. Because it links to my best years with excitement and thrill. One element that constitute the memory is Red Garland trio. Especially C Jam blues.It was my greatest regret that I did not have the chance to listen to him live during my stay in NY, 1967-1972. I have experienced Bill Evans, Tomy Flanagan, Art Tatum, Wynton Kelly,

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I haven't touched anything other than the piano jazz itself. But on the second thought that there were so many things attached to the jazz music, right? Dancing is one, nice dinner of course, and it should go along nicely with your love whisper. There are lots of great movies that are featured in the movie. Or the jazzy version of movie themes that remind me of those beautiful days in my life.

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Softly as in a morning sunrise has been my favorite. See, the face of John? It's rare to see his face with this kind of smile. When could this video be? They all are pretty young and I've never heard this kind of clear recording before. My experiences with MJQ is limited to the LP. No, I went the very first concert in Tokyo. That was, . . . well I cannot be sure though, it could be somewhere

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I've been searching U-tube for some beautiful music. Yes, I wanted to listen to beautiful music because of the incident written below. And found this chorus. There are lots of sentiments for me in this song, Stardust. I started out to learn clarinet. I was in love with Benny Goodman. It was mid 50es, as I started to go to junior high. This is one hell of the difficult tune to improvise and cannot

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Every once in a while, I feel the urge that I should let you know how the Japanese popular songs are. To do that, I sure will try to compare some technicality of it with jazz. If I say the popular, don't forget that I'm an old man. The Jazz is still one of the popular songs for me. So, the popular song can't be one of those anime songs that have been around with those cyber-creatures nonsenses.

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We were at the College Jazz Band Contest. It was 1962 or 63, It's 45 years ago. So anyone under 45 hadn't existed at that time. Now you know how old I am. We played "So what" and relaxed as being the audience when one of the other contestants started to play "Take Five".We knew pretty well that the improvisation of it was quite tough. Yes, the rhythm is 5/4. You count five for a bar, which is

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